For the next week, all six of the girls were a little standoffish, a little unsure how to act around me. It seemed to me that each of them was still wondering if she was the one I was in love with and saving my virginity for, and even if she didn't think herself a Likely candidate, she was at least stressed out overanalyzing the possibilities. Even

Belle was acting weird around me despite my assurance that I thought of her as a sister, something her dad noticed at dinnertimes.

Nobody flirted with me. Nobody teased me. We still hung out together as a group, but the carefree joy wasn't there. Small groups of us would meet up in the afternoons to do homework, but that's all we did: homework. It was exactly the awkward "opposite sex" tension Alice had been worried about, and that whole week solidified in my mind the need for The Rule to keep the BTC running harmoniously. If the tension remained much Longer, there wouldn't BE a BTC much longer, at least not a version that still included me.

It was Alice, actually, who managed to break the tension. While she had always messed around and teased me the same as the other girls, she had done so far less often than some of the others. Alice and Mari were the less physically aggressive ones of the group, making fewer flirtatious comments, covering up a little more skin, and not copping quite as many feels of my body as the other four.

So it was a bit of a surprise Friday afternoon when Alice abruptly dropped herself into my Lap while I sat in the armchair, greeted, "Hi,

Matty," and promptly shoved her tongue down my throat.

I stiffened up in surprise and at first didn't kiss her back, but the lovely Korean girl held my head in a tight grip, kept up the pressure, and a moment later I found myself kissing her back while my arms circled around her body to hug her close. It wasn't our first ever kiss, so I didn't feel completely shocked, but I was pretty sure we hadn't yet broken double-digits on the kiss count.

Kissing her was quite nice, though. While she was still a tomboy through and through in terms of personality, eschewing pretty dresses and makeup in favor of track pants and playing sports, her body was completely feminine. She was of average height for an 18-year-old

American girl, which made her taller than most every other Asian girl in the school. She was also more muscular and curvier than most every other Asian girl in the school, sporting fat 36D tits and a nicely rounded ass. She grabbed my hands and planted them on that rounded ass while she ground her crotch against my pelvis and shoved those big tits into my chest.

But the kiss didn't last long before Alice broke away. Panting hard, she searched my eyes and asked with deadly seriousness, “Are you in love with me?"

I blinked twice in surprise, not expecting the question and therefore not answering right away.

“Are you in love with me?" she repeated, setting her jaw and giving me a fierce look that demanded an answer.

So I stuttered, “N-no. I'm not.”

“Are you saving your virginity for me?"

“Uh, no. I'm not.”

Alice nodded in satisfaction, hopped off my Lap, and Looked at the next closest girl, who happened to be Mari seated on the near side of the

3-cushion couch. "You're next."

“Umm, what?" Maris face was the definition of deer-in-the-headlights.

Alice rolled her eyes.

“Nevermind. Neevie?"

Naimh didn't hesitate and quickly bounced to her feet. The busty redhead eagerly slid into my Lap and attacked my face, devouring me, really. This time I returned the kiss with intense fervor, and our

Lip-Lock went on and on and if it never ended, that would've been fine with me. But Alice was beside us, tapping Naimh's shoulder impatiently.

And we finally broke the kiss, staring at each other with goofy, giddy expressions.

Alice was impatient.

“You have to ask him the two questions now.”